BLINDSIDE

🌟EOIs Open for Blindside Studios!🌟

A small number of artist studios will be available from Jan–June 2026 at our gallery space in the Nicholas Building.

These are compact workspaces in Gallery 2 with 24/7 access. Suited to artists working with visual, written or digital practices who are comfortable in a semi-shared space.

Studio Fees:
5.95m² - $325/month
11.9m² - $625/month

Blindside will provide professional development support including crit sessions, mentorship and curator visits. No formal outcomes are required, though artists are welcome to host studio showings.

EOIs close Tuesday 2nd of December, 11.59pm.

Link in bio for more info!

Announcing DEBUT XXI - an annual curated exhibition of works by recent graduates from Melbourne’s major art institutions. DEBUT is a Blindside project committed to fostering new talent 💫 Launching next week at BLINDSIDE 🚀

Thu 03 - Sat 26 Apr 2025
Opening event Thursday April 3, 6-8pm 🥂

Celebrating its 21st year, DEBUT XXI brings together recent graduates working with traditional techniques, historical styles, or otherwise labour-driven processes, representing a shared affinity with artisanal notions of artistic value ✨

FEATURING:

Georgia Naughton, Amelia Gill, La’la Zarei, Aliza Nickle, Celline Mercado, Dylan Marriott & Mythra Schwartz





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This year, Blindside offered an award to graduates from RMIT, MADA, and VCA. All Debut artists received an artist fee, curatorial advice and technical assistance as part of the four week exhibition ✨

CURATORED by Emeline Robinson-Shaw and Veronica Charmont

BLINDSIDE PRESENTS OUR LATEST SCREEN SERIES 👀

From the View Finder
Curated by Veronica Charmont

Presenting Films by Matthew Berka, Giles Fielke & Paddy Hay, Lucy Helen Kostos, and Julia McInerney

A series of four films by filmmakers dedicated to working with the medium of analogue film. Each filmmaker is a past or present member of non-for-profit artist collective Artist Film Workshop, an analogue film lab based in Brunswick East that provides access to analogue knowledge and resources for filmmakers and artists.

The tactile medium of film holds a unique ability to preserve, capture, and create moments in moving images across time and space. Through this medium a collective convergence of ideas emerges between the four films. They examine our relationships with local and distant landscapes, and consider how these environments intertwine with notions of identity, family and community.

View the Films Online
Only Until 30 April 2025







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Image Credit 1:
Matthew Berka, still from Hume’s Disappointment, 2016, Super 8mm shown as video, 11:02 min

Image Credit 2:
Julia McInerney, Joanna (film still), 2022
16mm black and white film
10 minutes 20 seconds

Image Credit 3:
Lucy Helen Kostos, still from Ithaki, 16mm still, 2019

Image Credit 4:
Giles Fielke and Paddy Hay, still from The Gardens, 2022, 16mm black and white and colour, sound, 7 mins

Final days to see 👀

You Can Use My Phone
Jemi Gale, Sol Fernandez ☀️
30 Jan – 1 Mar 2025

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In You Can Use My Phone, our walls speak, low and warm, blending little hands, big thoughts, and all-encompassing feelings. This exhibition, both new and familiar, is an offering of depictions that rise from the shared voice of Aunty Jemi Gale, Sol Fernandez, and her children and collaborators Blu and Zeia Fernandez Nitor-Zammataro. Here, paintings are not just seen; they are felt — reaching out to little hands. Intended to be felt by the crawling, toddling, wide-eyed, and those who care for and live amongst the young.
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Images courtesy of the artists. Photos by Sebastian Kainey